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The Developmental Disability Industry’s Huge White Woman Problem
I have started to worry that therapy has made me more misogynistic and prejudiced.
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It’s been a while and I’ve been getting nothing short of waterboarded by freelancing and grad school. Let me start off with a short story.
I sat in front of a computer screen looking at another website attached to another referral from another referral from yet another referral in a string of never-ending referrals. I had reached the usual “Our Team” sort of page. All of the potential services had started to run together in my mind. Psychotherapy. Occupational therapy. Different flavors of autism and ADHD coaching (yeah, I know they aren’t licensed in the same kinds of ways, but they’re thoroughly mixed up in that whole scene). “Why does that face look so punchable?” I suddenly thought to myself. I continued to surprise myself as the thoughts continued to avalanche down hill into a cursed abyss of inner rage.
“She already looks like a Karen to me.”
“Does somebody tell all of them to straighten their hair and dye it the same two colors?”
